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Pristine Roof Cleaning New Jersey · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

roof cleaning (fj fitzpatrick)

aaron61 · Guest

That thing looks like a real PIA

Guest

dan are planning to sell your business to them?

Pristine Roof Cleaning New Jersey · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

everything is for sale for the right price. but if im not working every day in may then yes. with all the dirty roofs that are out there we should be doing 3 a day 5 days a week i just dont get it.

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I have seen the ads looks like that thing would be doing some damage to roofs but they are a large company that repairs and replaces roofs so I dont think they are to concerned
if they do some damage
having a larger company in our area could be good and bad they are doing the advertising and getting the thought in peoples heads, but the other side is people know the name and might opt to go with them because they trust the name

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not when you see the price they charge they are so high

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did not bother checking the price if they are high thats good for us

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I'm usually coming in at a third of their price and still making a great profit. The best part is they are doing all the costly advertisement for me (TV and radio commercials)

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landisconstruction wrote:
I'm usually coming in at a third of their price and still making a great profit. The best part is they are doing all the costly advertisement for me (TV and radio commercials)

Thats my thoughts tehy are getting the word out and we can do it cheaper

whats the going rate for them?

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I'm not sure how they price out their jobs, but going by the last one I bid against them on they came out to 1.10 sqft.

Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX · Guest

So why not match it and outsell them? You sound like the lowballers we all fight against.

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becuase $800 for a 1300 sq ft house is rediculous. They use a surface cleaner and it takes them twice as long to do a job. Its not lowballing its just professionalism and respect.

Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX · Guest

Rediculous to who? And based on what? The industry standard? My biggest local competitor thinks that me charging .15-.20 a square foot is rediculous and he charges half that sometimes. Its all perspecitve. If EVERYBODY charged $800 for that house, it wouldnt be rediculous, it would be "local industry standard".

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but thats not what everyone charges its only what they charge.

Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX · Guest

Are they closing deals and making money? They seem to be a LARGE company....

aaron61 · Guest

I'm drinkin the Ugly Kool Aid on this 1.

Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX · Guest

What's that mean Aaron? Ugly didn't post here....

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Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX wrote:
So why not match it and outsell them? You sound like the lowballers we all fight against.

Scott, Here was the three estimates on a 20sq. roof ( they wanted the front side only cleaned which = 20sq.) Everyone bid on the same roof area.

The company in the discussion = $1900

Landis Roof Cleaning = $800 plus I told her we would do the gutters

The real "lowballer"= $400

So I would not consider myself the low baller here. I think I was being very generous to myself with these numbers and still resonable to the Homeowner considering the 9/12 and 12/12 pitch's.

Roof Cleaning West Chester PA · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

landisconstruction wrote:
I'm usually coming in at a third of their price and still making a great profit. The best part is they are doing all the costly advertisement for me (TV and radio commercials)

Barry, I prospect slightly east of you and if you're charging about a third less we're both in the same ballpark.

Scott, the homes I've prospected the past 2 weeks range from $300-$900 for the same house. I don't have a large enough sample size yet to determine what my closing ratio is but I'd like to close 60% of my estimates. If my current pricing structure yields 60% than I'll stick with it, if not I'll adjust accordingly.

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I agree with you fellas from up north 'cause it's not good to be too greedy, but doesn't Scott have a valid point? It seems like it might be OK to creep your price up closer to theirs. I never went to college or businees school, but I'd try to milk the situation for what I could. The fact that you can do it in 1/2 the time it takes them is simply a benefit of doing things the "RCIA" way. I'd creep up towards 75% of their price & smile every time I deposited a check.

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